Madden NFL 25 (PS4, Xbox One ) Video Review

Madden 25 looks a bit better on a next-gen console. It still won’t be winning any awards for bigtime graphical advancements, but it does have some pretty cool touches around the field. The stadiums feel alive, and the days of flat and blurry crowds are over. Whenever I broke a long touchdown run, the crowd made me feel like I had just done something grand. And when the home crowd isn’t happy with how their team is performing, you’ll definitely hear it.All the cutaways to the sidelines to show coaches and players are satisfying, and EA deserves to be proud about how good they look. But they shouldn’t have had it happen quite so often,because some of the player interactions have gotten repetitive already,and even though character models look much sharper in 1080p resolution, we’re in serious uncanny valley territory here. There’s something kinda off about these guys, and not just their soulless facial expressions. I’m not a fan of how a lot of the players look: everyone has extremely long legs and small torsos, and it just looks generic to me. A couple of guys are particularly bad. For example, the 49ers’ Colin Kapernick doesn’t sport any of his trademark body ink, and I didn’t even recognize Kansas City Chiefs star running back, Jamaal Charles. I just kept saying, “There’s no way that’s Jamaal Charles, there’s no way!” He doesn’t look like that.